New Online Course | American Roadside Architecture
Instructor Dr. Cristina Carbone will be offering HP 672-201 "American Roadside Architecture," a new online course from May 24-July 2.
Read MoreChristina Rieth Receives 2019 Preservation Action Foundation Honor
Christina Rieth, a student in the Department of Historic Preservation, has been selected as a 2019 Preservation Action Foundation Advocacy Scholar. She will participate in National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week, March 11-14 at the Kimpton Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreBuilding a Local Preservation Ethic
Department of Historic Preservation Professor Doug Appler and Lauren Poole, an alum of the program, was recently featured in the Journal of Urban History.
Read MoreProfessor Carpenter Featured in Preservation Matters
Clyde Carpenter, a professor in the School of Architecture and the Department of Historic Preservation, is featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Preservation Matters, the publication by the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation.
Read More2019 Historic Preservation Symposium | March 29
On Friday, March 29, the Department of Historic Preservation will hold its annual symposium, titled "Historic Preservation and Sustainability: Beyond the Greenest Building."
Read MoreRiesenweber Secures National Register Listing for Pope Villa
Julie Riesenweber, assistant professor in the Department of Historic Preservation, recently helped Pope Villa in Lexington achieve its place on the National Register of Historic Places as a nationally significant example of early national-era architecture.
Read MoreHP Professor Appler Receives NEH Grant
Congratulations go out to Historic Preservation Assistant Professor Doug Appler for earning a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for his project “Reassessing the History of Urban Renewal in the United States, 1950–1975.”
Read More2018 Historic Preservation Symposium Videos
To watch the lectures from this year's Historic Preservation Symposium, please visit the College of Design Facebook page.
Read MoreAlan Ricks Lecture on March 30
Alan Ricks, co-founder of MASS Design Group, will give a talk titled "Justice is Beauty" on Friday, March 30 at 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Read More2018 Historic Preservation Symposium
The 2018 Historic Preservation Symposium will be held Friday, March 30.
Read MorePope Villa Seminar with Darwin Stapleton | March 22
Darwin Stapleton, a historian of technology, science and medicine, will speak on the Benjamin H. Latrobe-designed Pope Villa and early 19th-century scientific inquiry. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 22 at the Thomas Hunt-Morgan House.
Read MorePope Villa Seminar | Feb. 15
Join the UK College of Design and Blue Grass Trust on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m. for a Pope Villa Seminar featuring School of Architecture alum Haviland Argo and School of Architecture Director Jeffrey Johnson for their seminar, "Now: Preservation & Architecture" at the Dr. Thomas H. Morgan House, 210 N. Broadway, in downtown Lexington.
Read MoreHP Spring 2018 Lecture Series
Make plans to attend the Historic Preservation Spring 2018 Lecture Series, with events on Feb. 19, March 5, March 26 and April 9 in the Community Room at the Louisville Free Public Library.
Read MorePreservation Chair Dan Vivian Interviewed on Confederate Statues
Confederate statues and monuments have made local and national headlines as the country decides how to respond to the memorialization of confederate soldiers.
Read MoreFencing in Appalachia
For 13 years now, students from the Department of Historic Preservation have attended the annual dry stone masonry workshop at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky.
Read MoreProfessor Appler Publishes Book on Urban Archaeology
Historic Preservation Professor Douglas Appler has recently co-authored the book, “Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning.”
Read MoreNation’s First Hybrid Historic Preservation Field School Abloom With Data on Gardenside
Students at the University of Kentucky are currently wrapping up some of the first research collected on a mid-century neighborhood as part of the nation's first hybrid field school in historic preservation.
Read MoreHP Symposium Earns KY Heritage Council Award
Congratulations go out to the Department of Historic Preservation in the College of Design
Read MoreNew Fellowships Announced for 2017 Kentucky Field School
Additional partial tuition and housing fellowships available for the 2017 Kentucky Field School.
Read MoreNew Kentucky Field School Earns Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship
The new Kentucky Field School – a part of the Department of Historic Preservation in the College of Design – was recently awarded the Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship.
Read MoreProfessor Doug Appler Featured on WUKY for HP Symposium
Should we as a society work to preserve historic sites notorious for their connection to violence and conflict? That’s the essential question that will be discussed at a special conference this Friday at the University of Kentucky.
Read MoreThe Kentucky Field School
The University of Kentucky College of Design, Department of Historic Preservation is proud to offer the country’s first hybrid field school – HP 676 Field Methods in Heritage Conservation.
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